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Next Meeting on Oct. 12th |
Presentor to be determined.
Location is set for Rinker Hall room 240 on UF Campus, room is reserved from 6:15 to 9:00 PM. Use the parking garage near 13th (441) and Museum road. Rinker
Hall is north of the west wall of the garage.
The UF Parking rules state:
"All vehicles parked on campus during hours of parking restriction enforcement (weekdays, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm -- unless signage indicates otherwise) must display a valid UF parking decal
(unless parked in a metered space or approved pay facility).
A decal is not required to park in most restricted areas
after 4:30 pm, but be sure to check signage and never park in a service drive,
reserved space or disabled person parking space without the proper decal or permit.
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More on the parking rules at http://www.parking.ufl.edu/pages/parking.htm.
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September 14th Meeting |
Had discussion on all things Perl :)
Location is set for Rinker Hall room 240 on UF Campus. Use the parking garage near 13th (441) and Museum road. Rinker
Hall is north of the west wall of the garage.
The UF Parking rules state:
"All vehicles parked on campus during hours of parking restriction enforcement (weekdays, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm -- unless signage indicates otherwise) must display a valid UF parking decal
(unless parked in a metered space or approved pay facility).
A decal is not required to park in most restricted areas
after 4:30 pm, but be sure to check signage and never park in a service drive,
reserved space or disabled person parking space without the proper decal or permit.
"
More on the parking rules at http://www.parking.ufl.edu/pages/parking.htm.
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August 26th Meeting |
The date of the meeting has been changed to the 26th due to scheduling conflicts.
Aaron Johnson will be giving a presentation covering Class::DBI::Plugin::HTML.
Location is set for Rinker Hall room 238 on UF Campus. Use the parking garage near 13th (441) and Museum road. Rinker
Hall is north of the west wall of the garage.
The UF Parking rules state:
"All vehicles parked on campus during hours of parking restriction enforcement (weekdays, 7:30 am - 4:30 pm -- unless signage indicates otherwise) must display a valid UF parking decal
(unless parked in a metered space or approved pay facility).
A decal is not required to park in most restricted areas
after 4:30 pm, but be sure to check signage and never park in a service drive,
reserved space or disabled person parking space without the proper decal or permit.
"
More on the parking rules at http://www.parking.ufl.edu/pages/parking.htm.
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Meeting followup, Feb. 7th |
Gabriel gave a great presentation on March 4th, comparing DBI and Class::DBI. I touched on some of my own Class::DBI scripts. You can
see check out the outline notes here.
The nifty edit-your-database-table-in-a-text-editor script which the group almost programmed together is here.
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Sean's Safari Online Books - Site Review
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Below is a review of the Safari Online Books website. There I found
everybook that I could think of that I was interested in. Let me know
if you have any questions, I will be happy to help in any way I can. I
think the site is great and I recommend it to all of you.
The Safari Tech Books Online website has more than 1,000 books
available to read online. The site has proved useful with books from publishers
such as Addison Wesley, Alpha, Cisco Press, New Riders, Adobe Press,
Macromedia Press, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, Hewlett Packard
Professional Books, Sun Microsystems Press, Sams, and O'Reilly. If you prefer
to purchase a print version of a book, you can do so from the website
as well. The "My Safari" page is organized into two main sections. The
first, left hand column, is to search for books and the second, main
area of page, is broken into categories that group books you've selected,
books that Safari is recommending, or other information.
In the search area of the "My Safari" page, the available books can be
browsed through by using categories listed in Table 1. The ability to
search for a specific book, rather than browse to find it is available
based on the search criteria listed in Table 2.
Table 1 Browse by Categories
· View All Titles
· Applied Sciences
· Artificial Intelligence
· Business
· Certification
· Computer Science
· Databases
· Desktop Applications
· Desktop Publishing
· E-Commerce
· Enterprise Computing
· Graphics
· Hardware
· Human-Computer Interaction
· Internet/Online
· IT Management
· Markup Languages
· Multimedia
· Networking
· Operating Systems
· Programming
· Security
· Software Engineering
Table 2 Find a Specific Book
· Author
· ISBN
· Title
· Publisher
The "My Safari" page, deconstructed:
· My Recent Pages - This shows the most recent pages viewed on the
site. This is helpful when attempting to quickly locate information that
was recently read.
· New This Week - This shows the newest additions to the Safari Online
website. This is useful when looking for new technology or books
recently made available for online reading.
· My Bookshelf - There are 4 different bookshelf sizes; small, medium,
large and starter. The size of the bookshelf determines how many books
are accessible. Books stored in "My Bookshelf" are available to read
from cover to cover or any part of the book desired. Books must be kept
in the bookshelf for at least a minimum of 30 days. Books not in the
bookshelf can be previewed with limited information while everything in
the books stored in the bookshelf are fully visible.
· Top Books - The most commonly accessed books are listed here.
· Recent Searches - When searches are performed, they are listed in
this section. This feature allows for frequent searches to be easily
repeated.
· My Bookmarks - While reading a book, a bookmark can be placed to mark
the reader's position in the text for quick access to where he or she
left off last.
Notes can be added to any text for review at a later date. Notes can
be public or private which indicates whether or not others can view the
notes that were left for that text.
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Sean Ryle
Technical Analyst
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Meeting followup,
June 15th |
The last meeting on embperl and apache::asp went well. It looks like santa fe is a good
place to meet on a regular basis. Too bad it's not available on the weekends.
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Next meeting,
May 4th |
The next meeting will be at the Borders bookstore, near the mall and I-75. The meeting will take place at 7pm on Sunday, May 4th and the
topic will be the
Glade/GTk/Gnome modules and if we have time, Perl6. Hope the see everyone there!
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Next meeting,
April 13th |
Ah, finally. Our next meeting will be Sunday April 13th at On the Border. Good food, Perl,
and maragritas.
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Post "meeting" |
More news about the next meeting soon. Topic: debugging with CGI::Carp and other modules.
I put together a regex page, check it out
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Go on Safari with
your user group and you can receive FREE O'Reilly gifts and an on-site
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Gainesville Perl Mongers -GPM- was originally created by Jeremy James
05/1999
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